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Agence France-Presse

Award-winning Swedish rapper Einar, who topped the country’s charts, was shot and killed in Stockholm, police and media said on Friday as police hunted for suspects.
The 19-year-old Einar, who raps in Swedish, was the most streamed artist on Spotify in Sweden in 2019.
He was shot several times outside an apartment building soon before 11pm on Thursday.
Ambulance staff administered first aid but he died at the scene, said Stockholm police spokeswoman Towe Hagg.
Police have opened a murder investigation.
“We are actively working to figure out why it happened and who can be behind it,” Hagg said.

In line with usual practice, police have not yet confirmed the identity of the victim. But Sweden’s mainstream media identified him as Einar, whose full name is Nils Kurt Erik Einar Gronberg.
Many of Einar’s songs reference a life of crime, including drugs and weapons. He had public feuds with rival artist Yasin, who in July was jailed for 10 months for his role in a planned kidnapping of Einar in 2020.
The plan was ultimately aborted, but Einar was abducted several weeks later without Yasin’s involvement.
He was beaten, robbed, photographed in humiliating conditions and blackmailed, according to prosecutors.
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The kidnapping was part of a broader case involving 30 suspects in a criminal network accused of a variety of crimes.
Among the suspects was another rapper, Haval Khalil, who was sentenced in July to two-and-a-half years in prison for complicity in the kidnapping and who has also had public spats with Einar.
The verdict was appealed and the case is currently being heard by the Svea Court of Appeal, which is expected to go on until December.
According to public broadcaster Sveriges Radio, Einar had been summoned to testify in the ongoing trial next week.
Einar had also been called to testify in the original district court trial, but never showed up.

Daily Aftonbladet reported on Friday that Einar was living with a “price on his head” after a series of threats against him which had escalated recently.
He himself was one of several suspects arrested for a stabbing at a restaurant in central Stockholm earlier this month.
The son of Swedish actress Lena Nilsson, Einar grew up in southern Stockholm and often referred to the criminal scene in the area in his work.
He started his career posting songs to social media, and broke through in 2019 releasing Katten i trakten (The cat in the area), which hit number one on Sweden’s singles chart. He won several music awards, including Swedish Grammys.

Fans and friends expressed their grief on Einar’s social media.
“Einar was a real brother to me and I will miss him so much. We just released our first record last week and it feels so strange since I spoke to him just a day ago,” producer Trobi wrote on Instagram.
Another lesser-known Swedish rapper, 23-year-old Rozh Shamal, was also killed in a 2019 gangland shooting.
Sweden has in recent years struggled to rein in rising shootings and bombings – usually settlings of scores by gangs and organised crime involved in drug trafficking.
“It is a young life that has been lost, and I understand that he meant a lot to many young people. It’s tragic that another life has been lost,” Prime Minister Stefan Lofven on Friday told news agency TT.
As of October 15, 273 shootings had been recorded with 40 people dead so far in 2021, according to police statistics. During 2020, 47 people were killed in 366 shootings in the country of 10.3 million inhabitants.


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Swedish rap artist Einar, pictured here in 2019, was shot and killed in the Hammarby Sjostad district in Stockholm, police said. Photo: EPA-EFE

Police forensics members work at the site where according to local media Swedish rapper Einar was reportedly shot dead in the street late on Thursday night, in the Hammarby Sjostad district, Stockholm, Sweden October 22, 2021. Henrik Montgomery/TT News Agency via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. SWEDEN OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN SWEDEN.

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The rapper was the most streamed artist on Spotify in Sweden in 2019 and won several music awards, including Swedish Grammys
Local media said he was living with a ‘price on his head’ after a public feud with a fellow rapper, an abduction, and a series of recent threats against him



The rapper was the most streamed artist on Spotify in Sweden in 2019 and won several music awards, but had received a series of threats recently.


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